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Originally posted by BetaRose
Diana became a princess, not a queen. Had Charles taken the throne while they were married. she would have stayed a princess.
He had to renounce the throne because he married a Catholic, not because she wasn't a princess.
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Diana would have been Queen CONSORT, not Queen REGNANT. The former is for those who marry into royalty; the latter is for those with hereditary ties to the throne.
So, yes...Diana would have been a Queen.
I had always heard that Edward, in part, abdicated because of pressure due to his being sympathetic to the Nazis. Marrying a Catholic was also a factor--but not the major issue.
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